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PLACERVILLE, Calif. — Jaycee Dugard told a grand jury that she was forced to have extended periods of sex with Phillip Garrido, sessions referred to as “runs,” and was told that she was helping him because he had “a sex problem,” her unsealed testimony reveals.

“He got me so that he wouldn’t have to do this to anybody else,” Dugard told the grand jury. “So I was helping him.”

The sex went on for years, she said, with Nancy Garrido occasionally stepping in as Garrido’s sexual partner to keep Dugard from having to be one. Garrido videotaped “the runs” on numerous occasions, Dugard said. It slowed to every two or three months after her first child in 1994, she said, and stopped when she became pregnant with her second child.

“He knew I was really scared about getting pregnant again,” she said. “He said he just couldn’t help himself, but he was really trying to stop. And then I got pregnant again, and that’s the last time he had sex with me when she was conceived.”

Phillip and Nancy Garrido were sentenced Thursday for the kidnapping and sexual assault of Dugard, held captive for 18 years until discovered in 2009. Phillip Garrido must serve 431 years to life, while Nancy was ordered to serve a term of 36 years to life.

El Dorado Superior Court Judge Douglas Phimister had sealed the transcript after her September 2010 testimony, arguing that it would violate Dugard’s privacy, but on Thursday, he agreed to release a version without the pages where she talked about being raped by Garrido.

Dugard told the grand jury that she was living with her mother, stepfather and sister when on June 1, 1991, she was walking to a bus stop, and a car pulled up next to her.

“And all of a sudden, his hand shoots out of the car window, and I feel this shock,” she said. “And I stumble back into the … into the bushes.”

She said she felt like her whole body didn’t work — “it was tingling” — and suddenly, she was in the car. She was placed under a blanket, with someone’s legs on top of her. The drive “seemed like forever,” she said, and when they stopped, she was told to be quiet because dogs patrolled the area.

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“I was very scared,” she said. “I didn’t know why he was doing this. I just wanted to go home.”

She had a blanket over her head as Garrido led her to the backyard inside a fence, and into a room. The prosecutor showed her a photograph of a building with a sign that said “Concealed Compound,” and she said, “That’s a shed, but this is, this is where I was at.”

During that period, she said Garrido carried a stun gun, used when they abducted her.

“I was really scared of it,” she said, adding that he would turn it on “when I didn’t want to do something that he wanted me to do.” He never used it again, she said, but he threatened her, saying “you don’t want it to happen again. You should be good.”

She told the grand jury that Garrido had raped her, and said “it lasted until I got pregnant.” When asked how long that took, she said three years.

“So this was going on for that entire time, about once a week or more?” the prosecutor asked.

“Yeah,” she said, adding that he would come back and feed her, but kept her locked up.

Several months later, she said, she met Nancy Garrido, who began feeding her. Dugard began living in another room, where they all watched television together.

“I didn’t feel as lonely anymore,” she said, adding that she had been alone for the first year. “When she first, when she was coming in and she would bring me things, she would, she said that she couldn’t stay long because she would always start crying and tell me how sorry she was and she can’t believe he did it. She was hoping that he got a headache that morning.”

After they settled into a routine, she said Phillip Garrido was gone for a period, which she liked “because I didn’t have to have sex or runs or anything.” She later learned he was in prison, she said. He came back wearing an ankle bracelet after being reincarcerated for violating the terms of his parole.

She refers to “the runs” throughout the transcript, but the term is not defined. But she said during one period that Nancy was smoking crank, too, and “sometimes she would tell me, ‘oh, I’ll take this run for you.’”

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“Meaning that she would have sex with Phil so you didn’t have to?” the prosecutor asked. Dugard said yes. She said they had lasted several days, but dropped down to about a day.

She had her first child in 1994 inside the backyard complex, she said. Her second daughter was born in 1997, and Dugard began having more freedom.

He allowed Dugard to pick a name to be called — he had been calling her “Snoopy” — and she picked Alissa. He stated a printing business, and she started working there. She was able to spend more time outside with the children, and had her own tent.

A grand juror asked about one of her journal entries in which Dugard said she would never leave the Garridos. Dugard said she never tried to escape.

“Well, in the beginning I was scared,” she said. “I was afraid of I guess what he would do, Phillip.” She began to describe something that had happened, but the pages were removed from the transcript.

But in 2009, when Garrido was taken into custody and they had to go to the parole office, she said she was told “just stick with the plan. And if they ask you any questions, just say you need an attorney,” she said.